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fix(session): keep the cached system prompt prefix stable across steps - #1631
The system prompt is the cached prefix of every request, so any change to it between two requests of one session is a full cache miss: the gateway bills the whole prefix (system prompt plus tool schemas, about 75K tokens on a typical repo) again as cache writes at the full input rate, instead of as cache reads at 0.1×. Two parts of the prompt changed for reasons unrelated to the task.
1. The Altimate Workspace section flipped on a timer (altimate/workspace/identity.ts).
It rendered one sentence for a fresh link check and another for a memoised one. For an unlinked repo that was "No Altimate Workspace is linked to this project." vs "…was linked … as of the last check, up to five minutes ago…". The outcome memo is 30 s and the miss memo 5 minutes, so a long session alternated between the two.
Separately, when a re-check outlasted the 1.5 s deadline, lastKnown marked the previous (fresh) outcome stale. For a linked repo that removed the workspace contents and the team-memory line from the prompt for that step.
The "Team memory:" line was read from the 60 s positive enablement cache, so on a linked project it disappeared a minute after each enablement check and came back on the next one.
Fix: one hedged sentence per verified link state, true whether or not the last check is fresh ("…as of the last check. The link is re-checked every few minutes, so a change made elsewhere may not show yet."), and a slow re-check reuses the previous outcome as it was, bound or unbound. The team-memory line reads the last answer any enablement check gave (memoryEnabledLastKnown, keyed by tenant, API URL and workspace id, no expiry on read; a failed check keeps it). Only the resolver marks a link stale (the server could not confirm it); that case keeps its own "was last known to be linked … could not be re-verified just now" sentence and still withholds contents and the memory line, as before. A summary refresh that fails at its 5-minute TTL keeps the previous contents instead of replacing them with "not known".
2. Hoisted reminders went into the cached system message (session/prompt.ts).
After a compaction, the original-task pin (and the plan-switch reminders) are hoisted out of the user turn for models that are not Anthropic-like (#887/#888). The altimate-backend/altimate-default model is registered as OpenAI-compatible, so it takes that path, and the hoisted text was appended to the system array, which is the message carrying the cache breakpoint. The first request after every compaction therefore missed on the whole prefix, not just on the replaced history.
Fix: the hoisted text is sent as its own system message after the trailing environment message, past both breakpoints (llm.ts already splits the environment message out for providers with explicit breakpoints; a first gateway run showed that appending the pin inside that message changed the last marked segment and missed anyway, so the pin now gets a third, unmarked message). Without a hoisted reminder the request is byte-identical to before; providers without explicit breakpoints keep one joined system message. It is still sent as system text, so the #887 behaviour is unchanged.
Behaviour change to review: a verified link reads the same whether its memo is fresh or memoised ("as of the last check"); an unconfirmed (resolver-stale) link still says "last known". The team-memory line now stays on after the last enablement check said "enabled", until a later check says otherwise.
Not in this PR (limits):
After a compaction the prefix can still change for other, deliberate reasons: lessons.compact re-renders teamRules once a request- or file-tier lesson has been shown, and addHistoricalToolStubs changes the tool list when a compaction removes the last reference to a gone tool. The mock capture below has neither.
Contents timing on a linked project: a cold workspace summary slower than 300 ms is missing on the first step only, and the skills read can render "could not be read just now" under heavy load.
Skills synced from the workspace, memory injection and team rules can change the prompt mid-session on events. On providers without explicit breakpoints the date sits in the first system message, so a session crossing midnight changes it once.
A per-request prefix-hash log/counter.
How did you verify your code works?
test/session/system-prefix-stability.test.ts (rewritten after review): through the real prompt loop against a mock OpenAI-compatible server on an altimate-backend model, a builder turn after a plan turn carries the hoisted plan-to-build reminder as system text, and its first system message is byte-identical to the earlier builder turn's. Fails with the previous prompt.ts. Replaces the hand-built LLM.stream test and source-text guard, which passed on main.
identity-section.test.ts, "prefix hash over steps with a stepped clock" (setSystemTime moves Date.now for every module): an unlinked project over six steps including a hanging re-check past the 5-minute miss memo, and a linked project with memory on over six steps (T+30 s, T+61 s, T+2 min, two hanging re-checks past 5 min). One hash each, and the team-memory line on every step. Both failed before the fix (2 hashes; line gone at T+61).
contents.test.ts: a failed refresh past the TTL keeps the cached summary and retries next step (failed before the fix).
identity.test.ts: memoised and fresh misses render identically; an unconfirmed link is hedged as "last known" (pinned and unpinned).
The earlier stale/fresh render tests and the v0.12.1 release-contract tests are updated to the wording above.
No-regression run, bun test test/altimate/workspace test/session test/skill (packages/opencode), on the merged head before the review fixes (374bfb80e9) and after (3d2a473812):
after: 3,961 pass, 0 fail (4,018 tests; +4 new, −3 from the replaced stability file, −2 from collapsing the stale-render loop). Failures: none.
also after: bun test test/altimate test/memory: 10,975 pass, 1 fail, tool CLI > the daemon releases a DuckDB file between calls, which fails the same way with these changes stashed (DuckDB native binding).
Typecheck clean; script/check-tracker-leaks.ts and analyze.ts --markers --strict pass.
Request-body capture of both builds against a local mock gateway (comment): on main the first system message changed twice in a 7-minute session on an unlinked project, and once after a compaction; on this branch it was byte-identical across every request in both scenarios.
Real-gateway A/B, both comments: unlinked across the 5-minute re-check — no flip (first A/B); compaction — the first request after the summary missed in the first A/B (pin inside the environment message) and is a prefix hit after 5903c2ae2d (1,183 fresh / 4,304 cache_read); linked project across the re-check — system hash identical on 9 requests, full hits after the 5-minute mark. A with-lessons run was not done: lessons.compact re-rendering after compaction is a deliberate prefix change and stays listed under limits.
Cost side effects
Reduces cost; adds no model calls, queries or resources. In a headless evaluation of about 5,400 requests, the system-prompt hash changed 785 times; 315 of those were full mid-session cache misses, and prefix re-writes were about 43% of billed tokens. This PR removes the two causes identified there; the remaining misses need the per-request hash log to attribute.
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Two pieces of text in the cached system prompt changed between requests of
the same session, so the provider prompt cache missed and the whole prefix
(system prompt plus tool schemas) was written again at the full input rate:
- The Altimate Workspace section rendered one sentence for a fresh link check
and another for a memoised one, so it flipped on the 30 s memo timer. A
re-check that outlasted the 1.5 s deadline also marked the previous outcome
stale, which dropped the workspace contents and memory line. The section
now renders one hedged sentence per link state, and a slow re-check reuses
the previous outcome as it was. Only the resolver marks a link stale.
- Hoisted reminders (the post-compaction task pin, the plan switch) were
appended to the system array on non-Anthropic-like models, which includes
the Altimate gateway model. They now ride in the trailing environment
message, after the cache breakpoint, and still reach the model as system
text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The PR retains workspace summaries and memory-enablement state across failed or slow checks, and stabilizes workspace identity wording. It also passes hoisted reminders separately through prompt processing and places them after environment content in LLM system messages.
A failed refresh keeps the prior summary as incomplete so it can be retried. The test covers returning that summary and then fetching an updated result.
A process-local map retains definite enablement results by tenant, API URL, and workspace. memoryEnabledLastKnown checks the TTL result first, then the retained verdict.
Identity text uses periodic re-check wording for fresh outcomes and consistent last-check wording for unbound outcomes. Slow checks reuse the previous outcome; tests cover rendering and prefix stability.
Hoisted prompt reminders
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Summary
Reminder handoff to the stream packages/opencode/src/session/prompt.ts, packages/opencode/src/session/llm.ts
Prompt processing passes hoisted reminders separately. LLM streaming combines them after environment text for providers without explicit cache breakpoints, or sends them as separate trailing system messages for providers with breakpoints.
System message preservation and validation packages/opencode/src/session/llm.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/llm-system-cache.test.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/plan-layer-e2e.test.ts, packages/opencode/test/session/system-prefix-stability.test.ts
System transforms preserve matched trailing environment and reminder messages when the header is unchanged. Tests cover cache placement, reminder turns, and task pins after compaction.
sequenceDiagram
participant SessionPrompt
participant SessionProcessor
participant LLMStream
participant Provider
SessionPrompt->>SessionProcessor: Pass environment and reminders separately
SessionProcessor->>LLMStream: Provide stream input
LLMStream->>Provider: Send system messages with reminders after environment content
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Possibly related PRs
AltimateAI/altimate-code#1570: Changes workspace identity text based on memory-tool capability, which shares the identity and team-memory rendering path.
AltimateAI/altimate-code#1552: Changes workspace skill synchronization timing, which can affect workspace system content and its prompt prefix.
Suggested reviewers:anandgupta42
Merge Risk: Low · up to 5903c
Workspace and prompt-prefix stability changes look sound. Two narrow multi-tenant edge cases can show the wrong team-memory line or change the cached prefix after an account switch. Fix them soon; they are unlikely to affect most users.
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Direct issue #1633 requires stable workspace wording, reuse of the prior outcome during slow checks, and hoisted reminders after the cache breakpoint. identity.ts uses stable bound and unbound wordi…
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A rabbit checks the workspace state, And keeps the last result in sight. Reminders trail the cached prompt, While steady prefixes hold their place. One more check, then off we go, With carrots packed for every flow.
Request-body capture: main vs this branch against a local mock gateway
Each run is a headless altimate-code run --model altimate-backend/altimate-default against a local OpenAI-compatible mock that records every /chat/completions body. Each run has its own temporary home with altimateUrl pointing at the mock, and outbound proxies point at a dead port, so nothing reaches the real gateway. The project is unlinked (the binding lookup gets a 404). The mock drives a fixed sequence of bash tool calls, then DONE. The hash is over the first system message, the one carrying the cache breakpoint.
scenario
build
agent requests
distinct first-system hashes
changes
9 steps, 50 s apart (crosses the 5-min miss memo)
main
9
2
2 (requests 7 and 8)
this branch
9
1
0
compaction on step 2
main
5
2
1 (first request after compaction)
this branch
5
1
0
Timer, main. At t≈301 s the miss memo expires and that step's resolve asks the server itself, so it renders the fresh wording; 50 s later the step reads the memoised miss again and renders the other wording:
-No Altimate Workspace was linked to this project as of the last check, up to five minutes ago; a link made elsewhere since then would not show yet.+No Altimate Workspace is linked to this project.
and back at request 8. That is two full-prefix cache writes every five minutes on an unlinked project. On this branch all nine requests have the same first system message.
Compaction, main. The first request after the compaction adds the hoisted Original task — authoritative over any summary… reminder to the first system message. On this branch that message is unchanged, and the reminder is in the trailing system message after the breakpoint.
On both builds the tools hash and the number of cache-marked system messages (2) are constant within each run.
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Requesting changes: two timer-driven flips remain in the section this PR stabilizes, so it does not yet do what it claims.
The two changes in the diff are correct for what they touch. The pin reaches the model as system text on every provider I probed, with the first message unchanged on the explicit-breakpoint path, and fresh and memoised wording are identical. test/session, test/tool, test/agent and the touched files show no regressions (0 failures at base and at head).
Blocking:
lastKnown keeps only a bound answer, so an unlinked project with a slow re-check still flips (identity.ts:401, one-line fix suggested).
The team-memory line expires 60 s after each check (identity.ts:372).
Both also happen on main, so they are incomplete fixes rather than regressions.
Three minors are inline and one finding that has no diff line, with the nits, is in a separate PR comment. None of those block. The gateway cache_read A/B is worth running before this leaves draft, including a linked project and a project with lessons. The per-request hash counter is fine as a follow-up.
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MAJOR: a slow re-check on an unlinked project still switches text
This keeps the previous answer only for bound. A previous unbound falls through to the pin check and the local cache, finds no binding, and returns unknown.
An unlinked project gets a 404 on the first step.
After about 5 minutes the miss memo and the outcome memo have both expired, so the step asks the server.
If that takes more than RESOLVE_DEADLINE_MS, the step renders "Whether this project is linked to an Altimate Workspace could not be verified just now."
The next step reads the settled miss and flips back.
That is two full prefix writes per occurrence. The PR body and #1633 both say a slow re-check reuses the previous outcome as it was. The mock table is this project type, but its mock answers instantly, so it cannot show this.
I reproduced it with Date.now advanced 301 s and a hanging lookup. The behaviour is the same on main, so this is an incomplete fix rather than a regression.
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Fixed in 51ea805: lastKnown now returns any previous non-unknown outcome, and a stepped-clock test (301 s, hanging lookup) asserts one hash across six steps on an unlinked project.
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MAJOR: the team-memory line still flips on a 60-second timer
memoryEnabledCached runs on every step and answers "enabled" only within MEMORY_ENABLED_TTL_MS (60 s) of the last enablement check, by the real Date.now(). That cache is warmed only by a memory mirror or delete, a backfill, or the 5-minute poll in manage.ts.
On a linked project with memory on, the "Team memory:" line is present at T+30, gone at T+61, and back after the next check. With the TUI poll, that is at most 60 s of every 5 minutes and two full prefix writes per cycle. I reproduced the line disappearing at t+61 s, on main and on this branch.
The PR says what remains changes "on events rather than a timer", which is not true of this line, and #1633 names losing it as a symptom. The new test "a verified link whose re-check outlasts the deadline renders byte-identical" misses it because setClockForTests steps only the identity memo clock, not Date.now(). The mock proof covered unlinked projects only. The model also lacks the memory guidance for most of a session.
Suggested fix: base this line on a value that does not expire on read, for example the Contents summary's memoryEnabled (it keeps the previous value while refreshing), or a last-known answer per workspace refreshed in the background.
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Fixed in 51ea805: the line now reads memoryEnabledLastKnown (last answer any check gave, per tenant/URL/workspace, no expiry on read), with a stepped-clock test asserting the line and one hash at T+30, T+61, T+120 and two slow re-checks past 5 min.
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MINOR (not blocking, pre-existing): the contents block still depends on request timing
A cold summary slower than SUMMARY_WAIT_MS (300 ms): step 1 lacks the Integrations, Workspace memory and Knowledge lines and step 2 has them. One extra full write per process on a linked project.
A failed refresh at the 5-minute TTL overwrites the good cached value with UNKNOWN (contents.ts:258), so those lines vanish for that step. Keeping hit.value on a failed fetch fixes this one. A merely slow refresh already keeps the old value.
The skills read races SKILLS_WAIT_MS. Under heavy machine load it rendered "could not be read just now".
I reproduced the first two with a stubbed snapshot and summary, and saw the third in a load-affected run. This runs on every step, so the PR does not introduce it. It is safe to do in a follow-up, but it belongs in the list of what still moves the prefix.
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Failed-refresh case fixed in 36ec951 (keeps hit.value, retries next step, with a test); the cold-summary and skills-read races are left as follow-ups and listed in the PR body as remaining prefix movers.
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MINOR (not blocking, edge input): an unconfirmed link is now stated as fact
A resolver-stale outcome means the check failed, but this sentence now reads "This project is linked to … The link is re-checked every few minutes". Main said "was last known … could not be re-verified just now".
If a user asks which workspace this is during an outage, after an unlink elsewhere, the model answers flatly with the old one while /workspace says "Last known link". Tools and sync read the resolver, so this is text only.
Byte equality buys nothing for this state, because contents and the memory line already differ when outcome.stale is set. You could keep a separate sentence for stale bound outcomes at no cache cost.
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Fixed in 51ea805: a stale bound outcome renders the "was last known to be linked … could not be re-verified just now" sentence again; fresh and memoised verified links stay byte-identical.
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MINOR (not blocking, test-only): this test passes on main
Copied to the base commit, this test passes, because it builds environment by hand and llm.ts is unchanged. Only the source-text guard at line 149 fails on main in this file, so the move itself is protected by a string match.
There is also no prefix-hash test across N steps with a stepped clock, either through SessionPrompt.loop or on systemSection with Date.now advanced. Such a test would have caught both majors on identity.ts.
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Fixed in 3d2a473 (loop-level test through SessionPrompt against a mock OpenAI-compatible server, fails with the previous prompt.ts, replaces the hand-built test and source guard) and 51ea805 (stepped-clock prefix-hash tests on systemSection).
Findings from the review that have no diff line, plus nits.
MINOR (not blocking, pre-existing): a compaction can still re-create the prefix for other reasons (session/prompt.ts:1532, altimate/learn/delivery.ts:410, session/llm.ts:283)
lessons.compact re-renders teamRules from every shown lesson, so once a request-tier or file-tier lesson has been shown, the first request after a compaction has a different first system message. Learning is on by default, and the comment at prompt.ts:1520 shows this is deliberate.
addHistoricalToolStubs derives stubs from message history, so a compaction that removes the last reference to a gone tool changes the tool list.
The mock proof has neither (no lessons, no removed tools), so the "0 changes after compaction" row holds for that setup only. Both are worth checking in the gateway A/B.
Nits
The empty altimate_change pair at session/prompt.ts:2022 documents an absence and can go. The marker guard passes either way.
The lastKnown doc comment still says "say 'last known'" (identity.ts:388).
For providers without explicit breakpoints the date is in system[0], so a session crossing midnight changes it once. This is already documented in system.ts.
Sibling PRs #1632, #1639, #1641, #1643 and #1646 each merge cleanly with this head, and for the three that touch prompt.ts the merged file keeps reminders in environment. #1632 sends tools: {} at the step cap, which misses the prefix on that one request by design.
…s and the memory TTL
- A re-check that outlasts the deadline now reuses a previous `unbound`
outcome as well as a `bound` one, so an unlinked project no longer
renders "could not be verified" for one step.
- The team-memory line reads the last answer an enablement check gave
(`memoryEnabledLastKnown`, per tenant, API URL and workspace) instead
of the 60 s positive TTL, so it no longer drops a minute after a check.
- A link the server could not confirm keeps the hedged "last known"
sentence instead of being stated as fact.
- Prefix-hash tests over steps with a stepped clock (`setSystemTime`)
for an unlinked and a linked project.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A refresh at the 5-minute TTL that fails now keeps the previous summary
(and retries next step) instead of replacing it with "not known", which
dropped the integrations, memory and knowledge lines for that step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the hand-built `LLM.stream` test and the source-text guard
(both passed on main) with a loop-level test against a mock
OpenAI-compatible server: a builder turn after a plan turn carries the
hoisted plan-to-build reminder as system text, and the first system
message is byte-identical to the earlier builder turn. Fails with the
previous `prompt.ts`. Drops the empty `altimate_change` pair.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addressed review: slow re-check on an unlinked project keeps the previous outcome (51ea805); team-memory line reads the last enablement answer, not the 60 s TTL (51ea805); unconfirmed link hedged as "last known" again (51ea805); failed summary refresh keeps cached contents (36ec951); stepped-clock prefix-hash tests on systemSection (51ea805) and a loop-level prefix test replacing the hand-built one (3d2a473); lastKnown doc comment and the empty altimate_change pair cleaned up. Left as limits in the PR body: cold-summary and skills-read timing, lessons/tool-stub changes after compaction, midnight date on non-breakpoint providers. Gateway cache_read A/B still to run.
Build: fix/cache-stable-system-prefix @ 3d2a473 (clean worktree), run from source, model altimate-backend/altimate-default. FIX build only. The main run was skipped because more than 60K had been spent by then. Throwaway projects had no CLAUDE.md and a bash-only probe primary agent. Numbers come from the local session store (tokens.input = fresh, tokens.cache.read). The first-system hash is the per-request llm-request span hash in <home>/.local/share/altimate-code/traces/<session>.json. It covers the full joined system text, including the trailing environment message.
Total spend: 115,532 gateway-billable tokens (input + output + 0.1 × cache_read) across 4 sessions and 30 requests. The 150K backstop never fired.
(a) unlinked: 8 × sleep 55, crosses the 5-minute re-check
#
t+s
fresh
cache_read
note
1
0
4,425
0
cold
2
59
146
4,421
prefix size
3
116
144
4,565
4
173
144
4,707
5
230
144
4,849
6
287
144
4,991
7
344
144
5,133
past 5 min
8
402
144
5,275
past 5 min
9
460
144
5,417
DONE
The system hash is identical on all 9 requests (77f2b8ee…). Every request after the 5-minute mark hits the full prefix plus history, with 144 fresh tokens. No flip. The re-check itself isn't logged, so this rests on elapsed time (about 7.7 min) plus the unchanged hash.
(a) linked: not run
altimate-code workspace status (installed 0.12.7) reports "This project is not linked to a workspace" for a fresh repo with origin = https://github.com/altimateai/altimate-ingestion. It also reports that for the checkout that resolved as linked on an earlier pass. Per the plan, the run was stopped before any spend. Linking needs the binding restored first, so this still has to be done.
(b) compaction
ALTIMATE_CONTEXT_SAFETY_FRACTION=0.25 does not lower the trigger on this build. The fraction scales only the estimated uncounted tail. Provider-reported usage is compared against limit − headroom (about 168K), and a 24.7K-token session didn't compact (run compact2, 32K spent, no compaction). The first attempt (compact, 22K spent) produced no data because the model sent all 8 calls in one parallel step. The working run used project config compaction.reserved: 182000, which gives a trigger of 200K − 182K = 18K:
#
t+s
fresh
cache_read
note
1
0
4,479
0
cold (new cwd, see below)
2
5
2,534
4,475
3–6
7–13
2,532
7,007 → 14,597
growing history, all cached
7
15
15,811
0
summary request (summarizer system prompt, uncached as expected)
8
20
5,438
0
first agent request after compaction: full miss
9
23
2,534
5,434
10
25
2,532
7,966
DONE
Request 8 missed the cache. Nothing in the joined system text changed except the trailing environment message. After compaction it gains the hoisted <system-reminder>Original task — authoritative over any summary… task pin (system hash f77efafa… → f26cc0d1…, 1,403 → 1,911 chars). On altimate-backend, isAnthropicLikeModel is false, so the pin is hoisted. usesExplicitCacheBreakpoints is true, so it goes into the split trailing environment message after the marked header. The header itself (agent prompt + workspace section) is byte-identical, yet it gave no cache_read.
The same pattern shows up in request 1 of this run. The header and tools were identical to the sessions run about 1–3 minutes earlier, inside the TTL, but only the cwd in <env> differed, and it read 0. By contrast, the compact run's request 1 (same cwd as unlinked, different user task) read 4,312, a hit ending at the environment message. On this gateway, then, a prefix that ends at the first system message alone has not produced a hit in any request we observed. Hits came from the breakpoints at the environment message or the message tail. One likely cause is that tools + header for this tiny agent fall below the model's minimum cacheable length, or the gateway drops that breakpoint. This can't be told apart from the client side.
Verdict
(a)-unlinked: the fix holds on the real gateway. The system prompt is byte-stable across 8 minutes and the 5-minute re-check window, and every later request is a full prefix hit. (a)-linked: not measured, because the workspace binding no longer resolves. (b): the first agent request after a compaction is a full miss (5,438 fresh, 0 cache_read). The main-style flip in the first system message is gone, but the task pin hoisted into the environment message changes the only segment whose breakpoint actually hits for a small prompt. Possible follow-ups are to keep the pin out of the hoisted environment message (for example, as the last user-side part), or to confirm with a larger tool and skill set that the header breakpoint alone caches on this gateway. The cost here is small (about 5.4K fresh once per compaction), but the reviewer asked for exactly this, so I'm reporting it as measured.
…der is hoisted
On an explicit-breakpoint model that is not Anthropic-like (the gateway's
OpenAI-compatible model), hoisted reminders such as the post-compaction
task pin were appended to the trailing environment system message. That
message carries the last system cache breakpoint, so the first request
after a compaction changed its text and missed the whole cached prefix.
- `LLM.stream` takes the hoisted reminders as a separate `reminders`
input. With explicit cache breakpoints they are sent as their own
system message after the environment message; `applyCaching` marks
only the first two system messages, so the breakpoint stays on the
environment message and the reminders message is unmarked.
- Without explicit breakpoints the joined text is unchanged: the
environment, then the reminders, appended to the single system message.
- With no reminders the request is byte-identical to before.
- The plugin rejoin keeps environment and reminders as the trailing
messages, in that order.
Tests: a prompt-loop test that overflows, compacts and continues on the
OpenAI-compatible model, asserting the header and the marked environment
message are byte-identical before and after and the task pin is a
separate unmarked trailing system message (fails on the previous code);
`llm-system-cache` cases with a hoisted reminder for each provider.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Build: fix/cache-stable-system-prefix @ 5903c2ae2d, run from source, model altimate-backend/altimate-default, same bash-only probe agent and throwaway projects as the first A/B. Numbers from the local session store (tokens.input = fresh, tokens.cache.read); the hash is the per-request llm-request system hash from the trace file (full joined system text).
Total spend this round: 72,552 gateway-billable tokens across 3 sessions, 24 requests (approved cap 80K; one linked attempt was cut by the earlier 60K backstop 11 s before the 5-minute mark and is excluded below).
(b) compaction — fixed
compaction.reserved: 182000 (trigger at ~18K provider tokens), 8 × echo step N && seq …:
#
t+s
fresh
cache_read
note
1
0
4,440
0
cold
2–6
3–10
2,532
4,436 → 14,558
growing history, all cached
7
11
15,776
0
summary request (summarizer prompt, uncached as expected)
8
17
1,183
4,304
first agent request after compaction: prefix hit
9
19
2,534
5,483
10
21
2,532
8,015
DONE
Before this commit (first A/B) request 8 was 5,438 fresh / 0 cache_read. Cause and fix: the hoisted "Original task" pin was appended inside the trailing environment system message — the last marked segment on this gateway — so the whole prefix missed. 5903c2ae2d sends hoisted reminders as a third, unmarked system message after the environment message (llm.tsreminders); the two cache marks stay on the header and the environment message, and without a reminder the request is byte-identical to before. The joined-system hash still changes at request 8 (the pin is new text), which is why cache_read is the measure here. Loop-level test: system-prefix-stability.test.ts "after a compaction the task pin is its own message after the marked environment message" (fails on 3d2a473812, passes now); provider matrix in llm-system-cache.test.ts.
(a) linked project — holds across the 5-minute re-check
Project with origin = https://github.com/altimateai/altimate-ingestion, resolved by workspace status as linked before spending; 8 × sleep 55:
#
t+s
fresh
cache_read
note
1
0
5,481
0
cold
2
62
146
5,477
prefix size
3–6
119–289
144
5,621 → 6,047
7
345
144
6,189
past 5 min
8
403
144
6,331
past 5 min
9
459
144
6,473
DONE
System hash identical on all 9 requests (4789939c…, 4,593 chars incl. the workspace section with 9 skills, memory and knowledge lines). Every request after the 5-minute mark is a full prefix hit with 144 fresh tokens. No flip on a linked project.
One observation from the cut attempt, for the record: on a freshly created linked project the second request was a full miss because the workspace skills sync completed between requests 1 and 2 ("Workspace skills: not synced to this project yet" → the skill list). That is the cold-project timing already listed under limits in the description; it happens once per new project and did not recur on the re-run.
Verdict
All three scenarios the review asked for are now measured on the real gateway: unlinked across the re-check (first A/B: no flip), linked across the re-check (no flip), and compaction (prefix hit after the summary, which the first A/B showed as a miss and this commit fixes). Remaining limits are unchanged and documented: cold-project skills/summary timing on the first requests, and deliberate prefix changes after compaction from lessons.compact / addHistoricalToolStubs.
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<file name="packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/contents.test.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/contents.test.ts:251">
P2: This TTL boundary is flaky because `late` is based on `t0`, while the cache timestamp is recorded with `Date.now()` after the first asynchronous fetch. Use a timestamp captured after the first call, or advance by a margin, so the second call always performs the refresh.</violation>
</file>
<file name="packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts:306">
P1: `memoryEnabledLastKnown` is not account-scoped: it returns bare-ID TTL memos before the scoped map, and the map omits the credential digest. After switching credentials, a same-ID workspace can inherit another principal's team-memory state; key every verdict by the full account scope and do not consult unscoped caches.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts:396">
P2: An omitted `memoryEnabled` field is treated as a definitive `disabled` verdict here, so an inconclusive response erases a previously confirmed team-memory line. Record the verdict only when the field is explicitly boolean.</violation>
</file>
<file name="packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/identity-section.test.ts">
<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/identity-section.test.ts:995">
P2: The later clock steps do not exercise fresh re-checks: the first never-settling fetch remains the resolver's single-flight promise, so every subsequent step only tests the same deadline fallback. Use a controllable delayed fetch that resolves after the deadline, then await or release it before asserting a later fresh step; otherwise this can pass even if a settled re-check changes the rendered prefix.</violation>
</file>
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P1: memoryEnabledLastKnown is not account-scoped: it returns bare-ID TTL memos before the scoped map, and the map omits the credential digest. After switching credentials, a same-ID workspace can inherit another principal's team-memory state; key every verdict by the full account scope and do not consult unscoped caches.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts, line 306:
<comment>`memoryEnabledLastKnown` is not account-scoped: it returns bare-ID TTL memos before the scoped map, and the map omits the credential digest. After switching credentials, a same-ID workspace can inherit another principal's team-memory state; key every verdict by the full account scope and do not consult unscoped caches.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -280,6 +280,34 @@ export function memoryEnabledCached(binding: CachedBinding): "enabled" | "disabl
+ binding: CachedBinding,
+ account: { tenant: string; apiUrl: string },
+): "enabled" | "disabled" | "unknown" {
+ const cached = memoryEnabledCached(binding)
+ if (cached !== "unknown") return cached
+ return memoryVerdict.get(verdictKey(account.tenant, account.apiUrl, binding.datamateId)) ?? "unknown"
</file context>
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P2: This TTL boundary is flaky because late is based on t0, while the cache timestamp is recorded with Date.now() after the first asynchronous fetch. Use a timestamp captured after the first call, or advance by a margin, so the second call always performs the refresh.
Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/contents.test.ts, line 251:
<comment>This TTL boundary is flaky because `late` is based on `t0`, while the cache timestamp is recorded with `Date.now()` after the first asynchronous fetch. Use a timestamp captured after the first call, or advance by a margin, so the second call always performs the refresh.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -236,6 +236,25 @@ describe("workspace summary", () => {
+ const t0 = Date.now()
+ const expected = { integrations: ["github"], memoryEnabled: true, knowledge: null }
+ expect(await Contents.workspaceSummary(39, t0)).toEqual(expected)
+ const late = t0 + 5 * 60_000 + 1
+ expect(await Contents.workspaceSummary(39, late)).toEqual(expected)
+ // Still the good answer, and not cached as fresh: the next step asks again.
</file context>
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P2: The later clock steps do not exercise fresh re-checks: the first never-settling fetch remains the resolver's single-flight promise, so every subsequent step only tests the same deadline fallback. Use a controllable delayed fetch that resolves after the deadline, then await or release it before asserting a later fresh step; otherwise this can pass even if a settled re-check changes the rendered prefix.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/identity-section.test.ts, line 995:
<comment>The later clock steps do not exercise fresh re-checks: the first never-settling fetch remains the resolver's single-flight promise, so every subsequent step only tests the same deadline fallback. Use a controllable delayed fetch that resolves after the deadline, then await or release it before asserting a later fresh step; otherwise this can pass even if a settled re-check changes the rendered prefix.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -935,3 +960,83 @@ describe("systemSection", () => {
+ await step(4 * 60_000, notFound)
+ // Both the outcome memo and the miss memo have expired: the step asks the server, which hangs.
+ await step(5 * 60_000 + 1_000, hanging)
+ await step(5 * 60_000 + 40_000, notFound)
+ await step(11 * 60_000, notFound)
+ expect(new Set(hashes).size).toBe(1)
</file context>
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P2: An omitted memoryEnabled field is treated as a definitive disabled verdict here, so an inconclusive response erases a previously confirmed team-memory line. Record the verdict only when the field is explicitly boolean.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts, line 396:
<comment>An omitted `memoryEnabled` field is treated as a definitive `disabled` verdict here, so an inconclusive response erases a previously confirmed team-memory line. Record the verdict only when the field is explicitly boolean.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -362,6 +393,7 @@ async function memoryStatus(
})
}
const value = match.memoryEnabled === true
+ if (verdictAt) memoryVerdict.set(verdictAt, value ? "enabled" : "disabled")
if (value) {
memoryEnabledCache.set(binding.datamateId, { checkedAt: Date.now() })
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Review comments at @packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts:
- Around line 306-307: Update the cache-read path around
memoryEnabledCached(binding) to use the tenant-scoped verdict for this reader,
not a bare workspace-ID TTL entry. Preserve the scoped identity already
available to the reader and do not fall back to an unscoped cached verdict.
- Around line 369-370: Use one credential snapshot for both the verdict key and
the workspace request. Update the flow around verdictKeyFor and the request so
they derive the tenant and URL from the same captured credentials, while
preserving the existing behavior when credentials are unavailable.
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Do not override the scoped verdict with a bare-workspace TTL entry.
memoryEnabledCached keys both TTL maps by datamateId alone. If two tenants use the same workspace ID, a check for one tenant overrides the other tenant's retained verdict here. For example, a disabled check for tenant B hides tenant A's confirmed team-memory guidance for five minutes. When that TTL expires, tenant A's guidance returns and changes the cached prefix again.
Use the scoped verdict for this reader. Do not fall back to an unscoped TTL entry. identity.ts, Line 383, already supplies the scope.
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Review comment at @packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts around lines 306 - 307:
Update the cache-read path around memoryEnabledCached(binding) to use the tenant-scoped verdict for this reader, not a bare workspace-ID TTL entry. Preserve the scoped identity already available to the reader and do not fall back to an unscoped cached verdict.
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Use one credential snapshot for the verdict and request.
If the tenant changes between the two credential reads, a same-numbered workspace in the new tenant can supply the setting stored under the previous tenant’s key. The retained setting can then make the team-memory prompt line incorrect.
Suggested fix
-async function verdictKeyFor(binding: CachedBinding): Promise<string | undefined> {- const creds = await AltimateApi.getCredentials().catch(() => undefined)- if (!creds?.altimateInstanceName || !creds.altimateUrl) return undefined- return verdictKey(creds.altimateInstanceName, creds.altimateUrl, binding.datamateId)-}-
@@
- // Read before the request, so the answer is filed under the account that asked.- const verdictAt = await verdictKeyFor(binding)+ const actAs = await WorkspaceApi.captureCredentials()+ const verdictAt = actAs?.instance && actAs.url+ ? verdictKey(actAs.instance, actAs.url, binding.datamateId)+ : undefined
try {
- const workspaces = await WorkspaceApi.listDatamates()+ const workspaces = await WorkspaceApi.listDatamates(actAs ?? undefined)
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Use one credential snapshot for both the verdict key and the workspace request. Update the flow around verdictKeyFor and the request so they derive the tenant and URL from the same captured credentials, while preserving the existing behavior when credentials are unavailable.
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WARNING: the bare-id lookup runs first, reopening the cross-tenant window this file documents as unacceptable
memoryEnabledCached reads memoryEnabledCache and memoryDisabledMemo, both keyed by binding.datamateId alone (memory-sync.ts:276-279). After an account switch a same-numbered workspace in the new tenant inherits the previous tenant's answer for up to 60 s / 5 min — the window memoryEnabledForPoller deliberately avoids (memory-sync.ts:1259-1264: consulting it here reopened a 60s cross-tenant window the scoped memo had closed). It also leaves a timer-driven flip in the line this PR stabilises: tenant A's enabled is served, then drops to tenant B's answer when the TTL expires. memoryVerdict is written on every successful check (line 396) and holds the same last definite answer with no expiry, so this first lookup is redundant here — consult the scoped verdict only.
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SUGGESTION: include the credential digest in the verdict key
AccountScope carries account (a digest of the API key) precisely because two accounts on one tenant would otherwise share an entry (identity.ts:345-349; keyFor keys the resolver memo on it, identity.ts:386-388). This function receives that full scope but narrows the parameter to { tenant; apiUrl }, dropping the digest, so two API keys on one tenant and URL share a verdict that never expires: the team-memory line can keep promising a sync the current principal does not have until another principal's check overwrites it. Add account to verdictKey and to the parameter type.
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SUGGESTION: file the verdict under the credential the request actually used
verdictKeyFor reads credentials here, but WorkspaceApi.listDatamates() resolves them again on its own. api-client.ts:368-376 documents this exact drift: the request would resolve them again, and an account switch in between makes the two disagree; comparing before and after does not close it either (A to B to A passes the comparison while the request was served as B); passing the captured credential is the only form that cannot drift. Since listDatamates already accepts actAs, capture the credentials once in memoryStatus and pass them to both the key and the request.
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SUGGESTION: a reminder-only tail puts the per-step reminder in the marked cache slot
tail is built from the non-empty inputs, so with an empty input.environment and non-empty input.reminders it collapses to a single reminder message and system becomes [header, reminders]. applyCaching marks the first two system messages (transform.ts:272), so the reminder — text that appears on some steps only — would carry the last cache_control and change per step, which is the churn this PR removes. The only current caller always passes a non-empty SystemPrompt.environment(model), so this is latent, but the new reminders input makes the environment-carries-the-last-breakpoint invariant depend on it. Split only when input.environment is non-empty; otherwise fold the reminders into system[0] as before.
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SUGGESTION: capture t0 after the setup, or the stepped clock stays inside the windows this test must cross
t0 is read here, then recordApprovedBinding (line 1015) and memoryEnabledForPoller (line 1020) stamp lastValidatedAt and memoryEnabledCache.checkedAt from the real clock some delta ms later. step sets the clock to t0 + at, so every elapsed value is short by that delta: step(61_000) only leaves the 60 s enablement TTL while the delta is under 1 s, and step(5*60_000+1_000) only leaves the 5-minute validation window while it is under 1 s. On a slow host the resolve answers from cache, the hanging fetch is never used, and the test passes without exercising memoryVerdict or lastKnown. Read t0 after line 1020 and build linkedAt from it.
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SUGGESTION: the TTL margin here is 1 ms, so this test can silently return the cached entry
The cache stamps at with the real Date.now() inside the fetch callback (contents.ts:262), i.e. t0 + delta where delta is the first call's duration, and the TTL check is strict (now - hit.at < SUMMARY_TTL_MS). With late = t0 + 300_001, expiry needs delta of 1 ms or less; if the two mocked awaits take 2 ms or more the second call is a cache hit, the rejecting getDatamate never runs, and the assertion at line 254 sees github instead of snowflake (call count 2, not 3). Capture t0 after the first call, or use a wider margin such as + 60_000.
Status: 6 Issues Found | Recommendation: Address before merge
The cache-prefix work in identity.ts, llm.ts, prompt.ts and contents.ts is sound: the marked environment message now stays byte-identical when a reminder is hoisted, an in-flight re-check reuses the previous bound/unbound outcome, and the team-memory line no longer reads the 60 s TTL. The findings below are about scoping of the new never-expiring enablement verdict and two test-timing assumptions.
memoryEnabledLastKnown consults the bare-id memoryEnabledCached first, reopening the 60 s / 5 min cross-tenant window this file already documents as unacceptable (memoryEnabledForPoller, lines 1259-1264), and leaving a timer-driven flip after an account switch. memoryVerdict is written on the same successful checks and already holds the last answer with no expiry.
verdictKey drops the credential digest even though the caller passes an AccountScope that carries it, so two API keys on one tenant and URL share a never-expiring verdict.
verdictKeyFor reads credentials separately from WorkspaceApi.listDatamates(), so an account switch mid-request files the answer under the wrong tenant; listDatamates accepts actAs for exactly this.
packages/opencode/src/session/llm.ts
172
A reminder-only tail (empty environment, non-empty reminders) collapses to one message, which applyCaching marks as the second system message; split only when input.environment is non-empty. Latent for the current caller.
t0 is read before recordApprovedBinding and memoryEnabledForPoller stamp their real-clock timestamps, so on a slow host the stepped clock stays inside the 60 s / 5 min windows and the test passes without exercising memoryVerdict or lastKnown.
The TTL margin is 1 ms (cache at is stamped with the real Date.now() inside the fetch callback), so 2 ms of jitter makes the second call a cache hit and the line-254 assertion fails.
Verified, no issue: the split/rejoin in llm.ts keeps header + environment as the two marked messages with the reminder as an unmarked third message, and the no-reminder request is byte-identical; hoistedReminders has no other consumer that could double-send; applyCaching marks exactly the first two system messages; SystemPrompt.environment always returns one non-empty entry; contents.ts's at: 0 retry and previous retention behave as documented. Tests were not executed in this read-only review; the test findings come from source inspection.
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Issue for this PR
Closes #1633
Type of change
What does this PR do?
The system prompt is the cached prefix of every request, so any change to it between two requests of one session is a full cache miss: the gateway bills the whole prefix (system prompt plus tool schemas, about 75K tokens on a typical repo) again as cache writes at the full input rate, instead of as cache reads at 0.1×. Two parts of the prompt changed for reasons unrelated to the task.
1. The Altimate Workspace section flipped on a timer (
altimate/workspace/identity.ts).It rendered one sentence for a fresh link check and another for a memoised one. For an unlinked repo that was "No Altimate Workspace is linked to this project." vs "…was linked … as of the last check, up to five minutes ago…". The outcome memo is 30 s and the miss memo 5 minutes, so a long session alternated between the two.
Separately, when a re-check outlasted the 1.5 s deadline,
lastKnownmarked the previous (fresh) outcome stale. For a linked repo that removed the workspace contents and the team-memory line from the prompt for that step.The "Team memory:" line was read from the 60 s positive enablement cache, so on a linked project it disappeared a minute after each enablement check and came back on the next one.
Fix: one hedged sentence per verified link state, true whether or not the last check is fresh ("…as of the last check. The link is re-checked every few minutes, so a change made elsewhere may not show yet."), and a slow re-check reuses the previous outcome as it was,
boundorunbound. The team-memory line reads the last answer any enablement check gave (memoryEnabledLastKnown, keyed by tenant, API URL and workspace id, no expiry on read; a failed check keeps it). Only the resolver marks a link stale (the server could not confirm it); that case keeps its own "was last known to be linked … could not be re-verified just now" sentence and still withholds contents and the memory line, as before. A summary refresh that fails at its 5-minute TTL keeps the previous contents instead of replacing them with "not known".2. Hoisted reminders went into the cached system message (
session/prompt.ts).After a compaction, the original-task pin (and the plan-switch reminders) are hoisted out of the user turn for models that are not Anthropic-like (#887/#888). The
altimate-backend/altimate-defaultmodel is registered as OpenAI-compatible, so it takes that path, and the hoisted text was appended to the system array, which is the message carrying the cache breakpoint. The first request after every compaction therefore missed on the whole prefix, not just on the replaced history.Fix: the hoisted text is sent as its own system message after the trailing environment message, past both breakpoints (
llm.tsalready splits the environment message out for providers with explicit breakpoints; a first gateway run showed that appending the pin inside that message changed the last marked segment and missed anyway, so the pin now gets a third, unmarked message). Without a hoisted reminder the request is byte-identical to before; providers without explicit breakpoints keep one joined system message. It is still sent as system text, so the #887 behaviour is unchanged.Behaviour change to review: a verified link reads the same whether its memo is fresh or memoised ("as of the last check"); an unconfirmed (resolver-stale) link still says "last known". The team-memory line now stays on after the last enablement check said "enabled", until a later check says otherwise.
Not in this PR (limits):
lessons.compactre-rendersteamRulesonce a request- or file-tier lesson has been shown, andaddHistoricalToolStubschanges the tool list when a compaction removes the last reference to a gone tool. The mock capture below has neither.How did you verify your code works?
test/session/system-prefix-stability.test.ts(rewritten after review): through the real prompt loop against a mock OpenAI-compatible server on analtimate-backendmodel, a builder turn after a plan turn carries the hoisted plan-to-build reminder as system text, and its first system message is byte-identical to the earlier builder turn's. Fails with the previousprompt.ts. Replaces the hand-builtLLM.streamtest and source-text guard, which passed onmain.identity-section.test.ts, "prefix hash over steps with a stepped clock" (setSystemTimemovesDate.nowfor every module): an unlinked project over six steps including a hanging re-check past the 5-minute miss memo, and a linked project with memory on over six steps (T+30 s, T+61 s, T+2 min, two hanging re-checks past 5 min). One hash each, and the team-memory line on every step. Both failed before the fix (2 hashes; line gone at T+61).contents.test.ts: a failed refresh past the TTL keeps the cached summary and retries next step (failed before the fix).identity.test.ts: memoised and fresh misses render identically; an unconfirmed link is hedged as "last known" (pinned and unpinned).The earlier stale/fresh render tests and the v0.12.1 release-contract tests are updated to the wording above.
No-regression run,
bun test test/altimate/workspace test/session test/skill(packages/opencode), on the merged head before the review fixes (374bfb80e9) and after (3d2a473812):bun test test/altimate test/memory: 10,975 pass, 1 fail,tool CLI > the daemon releases a DuckDB file between calls, which fails the same way with these changes stashed (DuckDB native binding).Typecheck clean;
script/check-tracker-leaks.tsandanalyze.ts --markers --strictpass.Request-body capture of both builds against a local mock gateway (comment): on
mainthe first system message changed twice in a 7-minute session on an unlinked project, and once after a compaction; on this branch it was byte-identical across every request in both scenarios.Real-gateway A/B, both comments: unlinked across the 5-minute re-check — no flip (first A/B); compaction — the first request after the summary missed in the first A/B (pin inside the environment message) and is a prefix hit after
5903c2ae2d(1,183 fresh / 4,304 cache_read); linked project across the re-check — system hash identical on 9 requests, full hits after the 5-minute mark. A with-lessons run was not done:lessons.compactre-rendering after compaction is a deliberate prefix change and stays listed under limits.Cost side effects
Reduces cost; adds no model calls, queries or resources. In a headless evaluation of about 5,400 requests, the system-prompt hash changed 785 times; 315 of those were full mid-session cache misses, and prefix re-writes were about 43% of billed tokens. This PR removes the two causes identified there; the remaining misses need the per-request hash log to attribute.
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